Charles B. Shaw
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Who is Charles B. Shaw?
Charles Shaw was an engineer best known for overseeing building of the Northwestern Turnpike.
An inscription at US 50, Capon Bridge says:
In 1784, Washington proposed the Northwestern Turnpike as an all-Virginia route to the Ohio. Authorized in 1827 and started in 1831, it remains a monument to the skill of its engineers, Charles Shaw and Colonel Claudius Crozet.
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